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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SEOUL : Kim Jong Un oversaw a fiery exhibition of North Korea’s latest suicide drones, highlighting the military capabilities that could be honed by his country’s recent troop deployment to the Russian front lines with Ukraine where such aerial attacks are commonplace. Kim, clad in a black leather jacket, rose from a beige-colored suede chair to watch the drones soar into the skies, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday.

Trump, who campaigned on an «America First» foreign policy, has said previously that he wanted to strike a deal between Kyiv and Moscow, without giving details, and end bloodshed in the Middle East. «We have to get back to a great country with low taxes and a strong military. We're going to fix our military, we did once and now we're going to have to do it again,» he said Thursday at a gala organized by the America First Policy Institute at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

It said, «the return of the Donald to the White House offers an opportunity for Beijing to negotiate a new deal with Washington, which would probably include China indicating a willingness to move some production to America». On the continued war between Russia and Ukraine, the report noted that a deal could have been signed in the past on an agreement that Ukraine would not join NATO.

Since the Mideast wars began with Hamas’ initial Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, many international airlines have halted, restarted and halted again their flights into Israel’s main gateway to the rest of the world

Elon Musk met with Iran's UN ambassador and discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday. The meeting between Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravheld in a secret location in New York and lasted over an hour was described by two Iranian officials as «positive» and focused on reducing tensions between the two countries, the publication noted. Trump who appointed Musk, the owner of Tesla and X as the co-director of a new government efficiency agency during a call last week with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, handed the phone to the tech billionaire, said New York Times. Musk has played a key role in providing communications capability to Ukraine in the war with Russia.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead powerful U.S. spy agencies has often seemed to embrace Washington’s adversaries and questioned key American intelligence judgments, raising alarm among veteran intelligence officials and the wider national security establishment.

Donald Trump has said his administration will focus on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, as he lamented the killing of people in the conflict. He also said his administration will also work on bringing peace to West Asia. «We're going to work on the Middle East, and we're going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine. It's got to stop,» Trump said during a gala for the America First Policy Institute held at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday. This was his first major speech and public appearance after his stunning electoral victory in the November 5 presidential elections.

Elon Musk to US President- elect Donald Trump has eventually sparked discontent among members of the US President-elect's inner circle, according to Page Six. Elon Musk has eventually become a frequent presence at the Mar-a-Lago while participating in significant discussions which include calls with international leaders like Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. Page Six reported that this new bond has reportedly made many of Donald Trump's traditional advisors feel actually sidelined while insiders also noted that his inner circle is shrinking as he spends more time with Elon Musk and other selective individuals like Howard Lutnick who is the co-chair of his transition team. Also Read: Did a bakery refuse Whoopi Goldberg's birthday dessert order because of her political views? Here's the truth

Reliance Industries Limited, Viacom18 Media Private Limited, and The Walt Disney Company announced on Thursday that the merger of Viacom18's media and JioCinema businesses into Star India Private Limited (SIPL) is now officially effective. The transaction values the joint venture at Rs 70,352 crore (~US$ 8.5 billion) on a post-money basis, excluding synergies. At the closing of the transactions, the JV is controlled by RIL and owned 16.34% by RIL, 46.82% by Viacom18 and 36.84% by Disney. The JV will be led by Nita M. Ambani, Chairperson, and Uday Shankar, Vice Chairperson, who will offer strategic guidance.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the lounge outside Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago office, cabinet hopefuls mingle with advisers and friends of the future president. The occasional resort member strolls through.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President-elect Donald Trump has styled himself a master dealmaker who can leverage his warm relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, cool tensions between the world’s biggest nuclear powers and realign global politics. But that can-do image is at odds with the two leaders’ records and the new geopolitical reality.

Allan Lichtman, often dubbed the «Nostradamus» of US Presidential Polls, has blamed disinformation and billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk for his incorrect prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris would win the US elections. Lichtman, who has correctly predicted nine out of 10 election results, is renowned for accurately forecasting nine of the last ten US elections. But things took a U-turn last week when the historian and political scientist's prediction that Kamala Harris would win the US Presidential elections turned out to be wrong with Republican Donald Trump returning to the White House. Now, speaking to News Nation, Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University, provided a deeper explanation for his incorrect forecast and pointed to conservative media platforms and Elon Musk, who pored millions into Donald Trump's campaign, as a factor in his inaccurate prediction. ALSO READ: 'Your body, our choice': Deadly 'MATGA' Movement emerges in US. All about women's new trend after Trump's victory

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration intends to bolster its military support to Ukraine

This week IT engineering services provider L&T Tech Services signed an agreement to acquire California-based Intelliswift for a total consideration of $110 million. Amit Chadha, the company’s chief executive and managing director, told ET that the firm plans to double the revenue of the acquired company (whose annual revenue is about $100 million) in the next three years. While half of Intelliswift’s revenue comes from high tech, the rest comes from fintech and retail, along with the private equity channel. Persistent Systems in September said it was acquiring select assets from SoHo Dragon for $4.7 million. SoHo Dragon is a Wall Street-based consulting and staffing firm primarily in the business of providing IT services to BFSI customers. The Pune based firm said at the time, “The acquisition of the select assets will help in consolidating the relationship with a strategic and large customer in the BFSI domain.”

Donald Trump’s second administration is filling up with some of his most loyal supporters and many of the people landing top jobs have been critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and security at Canada’s border.

Donald Trump Jr. has recently announced that he will be joining the venture capital firm named 1789 Capital while he is opting out of a formal role in his father’s administration following the recent US Presidential election victory. According to Independent, during a conference for Republican donors hosted by JD Vance's Rockbridge Network, Donald Trump Jr. eventually revealed about his new position as a partner at the 1789 Capital. Independent reported that 1789 Capital which mainly focuses on investments in conservative-oriented businesses also includes the media startup of Tucker Carlson. At the age of 46 only, Donald Trump Jr. has been pretty influential in his father’s political endeavors which also include the support for JD Vance as the US Vice Presidential candidate while fostering ties with potential administration appointees like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Also Read: Donald Trump to conduct mass firings early into his second term? Two million federal workers are scared and anxious

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Going to war is now a rational economic choice in Russia’s impoverished hinterlands. Facing heavy losses in Ukraine, Russia is offering high salaries and bonuses to entice new recruits.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Jack Teixeira, a former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison over an extraordinary leak of highly classified intelligence documents that sent the U.S. government rushing to protect its secrets.

Volodymyr Zelensky may be in big trouble according to Donald Trump Jr, as he will apparently be losing his 'allowance' in a few weeks of time for fighting the war against Russia, which may be the inception of World War 3. This weekend, Trump’s eldest son mocked Zelensky in a social media post, claiming that Ukraine’s military aid budget was about to be abolished once Trump takes over.

Republican strategist Bryan Lanza has recently spoken about this issue in an interview, claiming that Crimea is gone from the hands of Ukraine ad will now permanently be in Russian territory for the coming years, but if only one thing that will resolve this issue would be Zelensky coming to the table and drafting a 'resolution for peace'. The US government has never deployed soldiers to fight in Ukraine and Kyiv front and has has never asked American troops fight on its behalf. Instead, they have requested American military aid to arm its own soldiers, according to The Sun's report. However, Lanza is of the opinion that there is a lot of respect of for Ukrainian people among Americans, him included. Meanwhile, he is also of the opinion that the political priority of America was 'just peace and to halt these killings on both sides of the border.'

The nominee for the European Union's next top diplomat says the bloc must commit to Ukraine for the long-haul even as the war's costs mount